All West Midlands articles – Page 103
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GP consortium votes to end choose and book LES
STRUCTURE: An emerging GP consortia has voted to discontinue a local enhanced service agreement for choose and book .
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South Staffs predicts surplus despite over-performance
FINANCE: South Staffordshire Primary Care Trust reported a modest surplus in 2010-11, despite over-performance in community and acute services.
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Mental unit investigation ends
PERFORMANCE: A major investigation into an occupational therapy unit in Staffordshire has concluded.
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Staffordshire trusts struggle with 18 week target
PERFORMANCE: Trusts across the Staffordshire primary care trust cluster have agreed to allocate £6.5m additional funding in an attempt to reduce a referral backlog.
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George Eliot Hospital gets SHA funds to balance books
FINANCE: George Eliot Hospital Trust under performed last year on its contract with Warwickshire primary care trust.
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Coventry and Warwickshire acute overperformed on contract
FINANCE: Univerity Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust overperformed by nearly 3 per cent on its contract with NHS Warwickshire last year.
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Coventry and Warwickshire reports risk to income from 'client' discharge
FINANCE: Coventry and Warwickshire mental health trust has reported a risk to the income of a learning disability service due to vacant beds.
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Coventry and Warwickshire mental health trust takes on substance misuse
COMMERCIAL: Coventry and Warwickshire mental health trust is hoping to take on provision of substance misuse services in the region to go with a contract it has just won for Leicestershire and Rutland.
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NewsJoint pathology venture fairly awarded, CCP decides
A foundation trust did not breach competition principles in selecting a public/private partnership for its pathology services, the NHS market regulator has found.
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NewsPublic NHS involvement suspended in Birmingham
Birmingham has been left without a fully functioning patient and public involvement network after its “two key decision making groups” were temporarily suspended.
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Shrewsbury and Telford saves just £3.7m of £12.1m plan
FINANCE: Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust has only saved £3.7m out of its £12.1m savings plan for 2010-11.
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Birmingham East and North rapped over lax data security
PERFORMANCE: Inadequate IT security at NHS Birmingham East and North left data relating to “thousands of individuals” exposed, as well as “high level information” concerning patients.
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NewsMerger overseen by Nicholson did not spot Mid Staffs failings, says Bower
Disruption from a merger overseen by NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson contributed to the failure to spot problems at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, according to Care Quality Commission chief executive Cynthia Bower.
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Gap of £4.6m in UH Coventry and Warwickshire CIP plan
FINANCE: University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire has fallen £4.6m of its target to identify £23m of cost improvement.
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News
Exclusive: government admits PFI deals mean 22 trusts will struggle to meet foundation status target
The Department of Health has named 22 hospitals with private finance deals that are “an obstacle to them achieving FT status by April 2014”.
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NewsCalls to 'save country's future nurses'
A university vice chancellor has attacked plans to cut student nursing places and called on the health secretary to “save the education of the country’s future nurses”.
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Lord Hunt becomes chair of Heart of England FT
WORKFORCE: Heart of England Foundation Trust has appointed Lord Philip Hunt as its new chair following a formal governors’ consultative council meeting last month.
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Competition panel okays seven provider trusts to run GPs
STRUCTURE: The Cooperation and Competition Panel has approved seven acute and mental health providers to take over GP practices, but says Monitor should review the arrangements in the future.
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NewsMid staffs inquiry told "name and shame" approach of Dr Foster unhelpful
Publishing hospital standardised mortality ratios into league tables without establishing how much of the variation between trusts could be blamed on poor care was “irresponsible”, the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry has heard.
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NHS Worcestershire finance director joins West Mercia cluster
WORKFORCE: Two directors have been appointed to the new West Mercia “cluster” of primary care trusts.